OPERATING REPORT BEAR VALLEY INSTITUTE KARA-TOGO (1st quarter 2025)
EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI-KARA-TOGO
INTRODUCTION
All churches of Christ of Kara (north of Togo) join me and my family to send you all the congratulations, encouragements, and greetings for your great desire and love to keep helping us through this Bible School to strengthen the spiritual capacity of the brothers to better help the local churches to achieve the goals of the Great Commission. We continue to pray for you so that we all have the courage to continue working together until the end of the training of these students. This will be an effective means in the process of reducing Satan’s kingdom by the conversion of the souls. In this overall vision to reduce the kingdom of Satan, our Lord will always be with us for good results in the future.
OPERATING REPORT
1- The current number of students: 6
2- The courses already taught the first quarter 2025:
a- Biblical Doctrine : by KAGNON Luc
b- Church Development : by TALAKI Nicodeme
c- 1, 2 Timothy and Titus : by BEDJELSI Fidele
3- The courses that will be taught during the second quarter 2025
a- La Mission de l’Eglise : by TALAKI Nicodeme
b- La vie du vrai disciple de Christ : by KAGNON Luc
c- Hermeneutics : by BEDJELSI Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting:
Teachers discussed the impending end of classes at the end of June.
Together, the teachers testified to the willpower, courage, loyalty, and zeal of these 6 students. They underlined the hope that these students give in the future to form a solid group with other evangelists to enlarge the kingdom of God in the conversion of lost souls.
5- Congregational Activities:
a- Worship and edification
Now the students have reached a level of maturity to help effectively, and we continue to send them out to churches to help with Bible teaching and worship on Sundays. With these students, we continue to work towards the goals of the Great Commission. We continue to strive for the establishment of new and mature assemblies in the future that will have the ability and capacity to establish other assemblies. We continue to organize and support every assembly in its door-to-door evangelism program. The influence of denominations and Muslims in our area is a challenge. The organization we put in place for teamwork and the teaching of Biblical truth helps us to convert people who truly seek Biblical truth and want to be saved.
b- Door-to-door program
We regularly organize this program of door-to-door work with the effective support of students and other evangelists, and with the involvement of other assembly members. Each church is helped in turn to increase digitally. We also organize corporate prayers to strengthen members’ faith and implore God’s assistance in all our programs. With this program, we have baptized a total of 5 people, not counting those baptised during our evangelisation campaigns: 2 women baptized in Lama, 1 woman baptized in Soumdina Pida, and 2 people baptized in Kara-University.
c- Campaigns:
We organised two evangelistics campaigns involving other evangelists in two new localities: Lassa Lao and Tchitchao Kigbeleng. Overall, we baptized a total of 19 people, including 8 in Lassa Lao and 11 in Tchitchao Kigbeleng. We salute the efforts and zeal of Missionary Steven, who financially supports these evangelization campaigns and enables us to achieve these results. This quarter, we baptized a total of 24 people. Let us pray for these Christ-born for their submission to Christ and their spiritual growth.
d- Seminar:
From 9 to 11/4/2025, we organized a seminar bringing together a number of Leaders and evangelists around the general theme of Leaders’ unity and cooperation. There were 26 participants, all were very satisfied with the content of the teachings. This seminar resolved a major problem that had long divided evangelists in the north. A sub-theme on how to manage conflicts made it possible to resolve this problem.
e- « Read and speak kabiye program » :
This program is helping participants to read and understand the Bible. All participants are delighted with the program. It’s also an effective weapon in a door-to-door evangelism program, because people speak only kabiye and by reading the Bible directly in kabiye, people enjoy listening to it.
f- Radio Program
The Radio program is an excellent tool for preaching the gospel to a wider population. Despite the rejection of Biblical truth due to the influence of the denominations, some listeners approve of these teachings based on biblical truth. Currently, we have returned to preach again on the denominations’ radio station/Missionary Radio. They have installed high-performance equipment to carry the message far and wide. Let’s pray together for this program, which is helping us to gradually reach some members of these denominations.
g- Graduation at Kpalime:
We took part in the graduation ceremony for the latest class of outgoing students at Kpalime. The full-time training school in Kpalime has now been moved back to Kara, and began on February 22nd, 2025. This school will help a lot to expand the number of rescues in northern Togo. Let us continue to pray for the students and teachers. May God be in control of this school for the good training of its students.
In Christ,
Fidele.